Care Act 2014

105 LETBs: co-operation by providers of health services

(1) Regulations must require specified commissioners of health services to include in the arrangements under the National Health Service Act 2006 for the provision of such services terms to ensure that a provider of such services—

(a) co-operates with the LETB for each area in which it provides such services, in such manner and to such extent as the LETB in question may request, in planning the provision of, and in providing, education and training for health care workers;

(b) provides the LETB in question with such information as it may request;

(c) complies with such other obligations relating to education and training for health care workers as may be specified.

(2) Duties imposed by regulations under subsection (1) on commissioners of health services are in addition to the duty imposed on such persons by section 1F(2) of the National Health Service Act 2006 (duty to secure that persons providing health services co-operate with the Secretary of State in the discharge of the duty as to education and training).

(3) Regulations may specify factors to which an LETB must, when proposing to make a request of the type mentioned in subsection (1)(a) or (b), have regard in considering the reasonableness of making the request.

(4) A reference to a commissioner of health services is a reference to—

(a) the National Health Service Commissioning Board,

(b) a clinical commissioning group, or

(c) such other person as arranges for the provision of such services.